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Building a Diamond Open Access Journal on Wikimedia Platform Building a diamond open access journal on Wikimedia platform Dr. Diptanshu Das Editor in Chief, ILAE Wikipedia Project Board member, Wikimedia Medicine & Long term Wikipedian Former Board Member, WikiJournal of Medicine Wikimeet India 2021 Member, Working Group, Open Access India Developmental Paediatrician & Child Neurologist [email protected] Wikimedia movement ● a collection of values shared by individuals (freedom of speech, knowledge for everyone, community sharing, etc.); ● a collection of projects (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, Wikibooks, Incubator, etc); ● a collection of activities (conferences, workshops, wikiacademies, etc.); ● a collection of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia chapters, etc.), as well as some free electrons (individuals without chapters) and similar-minded organizations Wikimedia Projects ● Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia ● Wiktionary, a dictionary ● Wikibooks, educational textbooks ● Wikinews, news articles ● Wikiquote, a collection of quotations ● Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents ● Wikiversity, educational material ● Wikivoyage, a travel guide ● Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species ● Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media like images, videos and sounds. ● Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects Wikipedia ●The largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet ○Over 55 million articles1 ○Over 300 languages2 ●15 billion views per month3 ●1.7 billion unique visitors per month Articles in English ●11th most visited website4 Wikipedia matters ●The general public trust it.5, 6 ●Used by doctors (50% - 70%)7, students (>95%)8, educators (>85%)9 and lawmakers10 . Picture B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine Inconsistent quality and Changes are reviewed, Clinicians/academics/ A shortage of images Cannot incorporate coverage11 but not systematically researchers often want original research Can not simply use any image on credit for their work the internet due to copyright Academic limitation More than a mention in the “history” tab Wikipedia’s limitations CC BY-SA 3.0 Maintenance costs, Most are paywalled Non-paywalled Copyright of images Limited readership Rigid, unchanging subscription costs, to readers journals charge (size and articles become advertising authors (article demographics) outdated processing charge) … Some charge both authors and readers! Academic journals’ limitations CC BY-SA 3.0 Similarities and differences Academic Journal Wikipedia Readership size Small and brief Very large and extended Median article - 800 total Median article - 10,000 per year Top 5% article - 3000 total Top 5% article - 1,000,000 per year Readership composition Other academics, often within narrow field General public as well as experts and professionals Peer review Pre-publication, private review by 2-4 subject Post-publication public review of a sort by subject specialists generalists ‘Good article’ - 1 reviewer ‘Featured Article’ - 5-12 reviewers Reputation Varies by journal but generally extremely high Public generally trust Academics have mixed opinions but improving Authorship Small number with relevant, accredited Large number with mixed expertise levels. Loose expertise. Organised group with lead and organisation. Many pseudonymous or anonymous. corresponding authors. Timeliness Static Constantly updated Updated by new publications Only one consensus version Shafee, T. et al. (2017). Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future. JECH. 71(10) CC BY-SA 3.0 Academic journals publishing model Traditional model Open Access model ● The reader, the reader's ● The author or the author's institution, or a library pays a institution pays an Article subscription fees Processing Charge (APC) as a fees for submission and publication, and/or a membership fees. Hybrid model ● Journal costs are borne by professional societies or sponsoring ● Combination of both models institutions. Open Access models https://www.bium.ch/en/pu blication-open-access/publ ication-and-open-access/ https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676 Open Access models Diamond Open Access Using the Wikimedia platform https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group Key features All published articles are openly accessible under a Open Access free Creative Commons license WJM is a fully non-profit journal run by volunteer Free to publish editors so has no publication charges of any kind All article peer reviews are published and Public peer-review publicly accessible Appropriate material is integrated into Wikipedia-integrated Wikipedia for added reach and exposure How do WikiJournals complement Wikipedia? ●Published in a standard academic journal format ○ Compliant with international journal guidelines (ICMJE, COPE, & BOAI) ○ Indexed, dissemination in academic world - G-scholar, DOAJ, CrossRef (DOI codes), ISSN, informit, ScienceOpen ○ Familiar format to researchers and health professionals ○ Permanent, citable “version of record” ●Externally peer reviewed (publicly accessible reviews) ●Authors are credited for their work ●Ethics, guidelines and processes externally audited (member of COPE and ICJME) ●Suitable material is incorporated into the encyclopaedia to be dynamic living version with maximum reach and impact Publication formats Research Review Original research Case studies Focused Encyclopaedic Multimedia Generally including A patient case in the on a specific detail - Broad summaries These are short Method, Results, medical journal, or a of a topic. covering an entire reviews centred Discussion. significant event, topic. around a key image decision, project, or - Encyclopaedic or other multimedia. policy. tone. They can be re-writes, expansions or improvements of existing important Wikipedia articles. Before After Text used to expand Wikipedia articles Images are stored in Wikimedia Commons, and can be used across sister projects. Images from this one paper appear in articles with a total of 255,000 readers per month. Wikipedia articles where media View count are used (Feb 2015) Estrogen 53793 Estradiol 27055 Menstrual cycle 53209 Ovulation 15584 Reference ranges for blood tests 23898 Progesteron 34680 Follicle-stimulating hormone 22883 Luteinising hormone 23706 Publishing flow (Journal first) Publication PDF Citable Preprint Public Stable server peer review HTML Indexed do Version of record i Highly accessed Broad readership Editable and updatable Wikipedia-integration WikiJSci Editorial Board. (2018). The aims and scope of WikiJournal of Science. WikiJSci 1(1) Publishing flow (Wikipedia first) Preprint server Publication PDF Citable Public Stable peer review HTML Indexed do Version of record i Highly accessed Broad readership Editable and updatable Wikipedia as preprint Wikipedia-integration WikiJSci Editorial Board. (2018). The aims and scope of WikiJournal of Science. WikiJSci 1(1) Publishing flow (Versioning) Preprint server Publication PDF Citable Public Stable peer review HTML Indexed do Version of record i Highly accessed Broad readership Versioning Editable and updatable Wikipedia as preprint Wikipedia-integration WikiJSci Editorial Board. (2018). The aims and scope of WikiJournal of Science. WikiJSci 1(1) Beyond Wikipedia ●Teaching resource used in Wikiversity ○ Acute gastrointestinal bleeding from a chronic cause: a teaching case report ●Image gallery in Commons and used throughout Wikimedia sister projects ○ Medical Gallery of Blausen Medical ●Stand-alone research article ○ Vitamin D as an adjunct for acute community-acquired pneumonia among infants and children: systematic review and meta-analysis ●Possibly also ○ Wikibooks 27 ○ Wikidata Who can submit articles? Anyone can submit All authors treated equally The content counts Ideal for research and acedemics aiming to Achieve maximum outreach, exposure, and impact Be credit for expert input to open access projects Contribute to the world’s most read encyclopaedia Picture D Who can peer review articles? Anyone can give review Pre- or post-publication External experts invited to review (at least 2 required) Have expertise in the topic at hand, and be willing to provide relevant credentials if requested. Be willing to disclose any potential conflicts of interests Not be editorial board members of the journal Anonymity optional Picture E • 66,000 journal article views during 12 2018. • 4.2 million views (2018) of all material 13 integrated into Wikipedia. High impact • 11 publications so far in 2019. Wikimedia journal hosting platform Features Site identity and branding journals.wikimedia.org / wikijournals.org / journals.wiki / j.wiki Specialised sidebar items and logos CC BY default license (compatible with most scientific journals) Automation of repetitive tasks Copying accepted articles into latest volume & issue Formatting PDFs Specialised extensions Automated email reminders to reviewers31 Wikidata integration to track peer reviews (currently written in talkpages) Individual WikiJournals WikiJournal of Science WikiJournal of Medicine www.WikiJSci.org www.WikiJMed.org [email protected] [email protected] WikiJSci WikiJMed WikiJSci WikiJMed WikiJournal of Humanities WikiJournal of PPB www.WikiJHum.org [email protected] WikiJHum WikiJHum Case studies – improving Wikipedia FULL REVIEW ARTICLES ARTICLE SECTIONS Existing high-quality
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